यजुस्

Sanskrit

Noun

यजुस् (yájus) n.

1. religious reverence, veneration, worship, sacrifice
2. a sacrificial prayer or formula (technical term for particular mantras muttered in a peculiar manner at a sacrifice; they were properly in prose and distinguished from the ऋच् (ṛc) and सामन् (sāman))
3. name of the Yajurveda (also in plural)
4. name a particular sacrificial text

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898, page 0839